Will nextbox use blueray?

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heruamon said:

greenmedic88 said:
MS would probably be best off using a proprietary disc format, maybe based off HD-DVD to reduce instances of piracy while providing additional space for programs that need it.

The only reason for going with BD would be the convenience of using an established higher data density optical format at the cost of licensing fees for the proprietary format.

Not that it matters, but they've already been so stubborn on the BD issue, flipping a 180 by using it would be like announcing a retraction on something they already declared as final.

If they stick with DVD for the next generation, then they are being even more stubborn on the storage issue in addition to ignoring changes in developer demands for more storage flexibility.

As for an all DD console to skirt the storage issue; best not to try this in 2012 or whenever Xbox 3.0 is set to debut. It would be a disaster by cutting off all potential consumers who don't game online (shrinking, but still relevant %).

This to me, is what CBHD represents...

M$ might needs a media format with more disc space for larger games, and CBHD offers this, while being able to fully play regular DVDs.  The cost for such a choice are drastically reduced, and you can still upscale movies to 1080-quality.  Not only that, but production cost for these disc would be a fraction of the cost to go with brd on both the manufacturing cost, and the long term licensing fees.  Seems to me that M$ is going to look very hard to go in another direction, unless they can get a serious sweetheart deal on brd fees, imho.

If it represents a $10-15 saving on the drive and another $9.50 on Blu Ray playback its quite a bit of savings to consider relative to what 95% of games will require (im going off the $23 of royalties justification for CBHD vs DVD). Even limiting themselves to single layer 15GB discs would be good enough for at least 97% of games in the next generation. This will be especially important when next generation consoles probably won't cost more than $299 at launch.